Antarctica will shortly receive one of the first traditional Māori carvings to have been carved and completed on the ice.
A pair of Māori carvers headed south to Antarctica on Waitangi Day to spend two weeks completing and installing the two whakawae (door frames) and a pare (lintel) they are carving for Scott Base.

A study of ancient rodent nests from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has provided the first insights into how organisms responsible for causing diseases in plants responded to past climate change.

One of New Zealand’s most successful conservation programmes is in full flight. Deep in the ancient Pureora rainforest, a small group of North Island kōkako catchers wait in the dark, eager to coerce a pair of the wild forest-dwelling birds into their net.